ICD-10-PCS Body System: ICD-10-PCS Body System C0 - Central Nervous System
The ICD-10-PCS root operation C0 in the Nuclear Medicine classification involves procedures that use radioactive materials for imaging or diagnostic evaluation of the Central Nervous System. These procedures help visualize or study brain function and structure through emitted radiation captured externally.
Specifically, Central Nervous System nuclear medicine procedures include various imaging techniques. Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging (C01) produces single-plane images by detecting radioactive emissions. More advanced methods like Tomographic Nuclear Medicine Imaging (C02) offer three-dimensional views by assembling multiple image slices. Positron Emission Tomographic (PET) Imaging (C03) further refines this by simultaneously capturing emissions from opposite angles to create detailed 3D images. Additionally, the Nonimaging Nuclear Medicine Probe procedure (C05) involves using radioactive tracers for functional studies without forming images, tracking substance distribution or absorption. These codes are critical for documenting precise nuclear medicine evaluations of the brain and central nervous system.
List of ICD-10-PCS procedures under ICD-10-PCS Body System C0 - Central Nervous System
C01 - Planar Nuclear Medicine Imaging - Introduction of radioactive materials into the body for single plane display of images developed from the capture of radioactive emissions
C02 - Tomographic (Tomo) Nuclear Medicine Imaging - Introduction of radioactive materials into the body for three dimensional display of images developed from the capture of radioactive emissions
C03 - Positron Emission Tomographic (PET) Imaging - Introduction of radioactive materials into the body for three dimensional display of images developed from the simultaneous capture, 180 degrees apart, of radioactive emissions
C05 - Nonimaging Nuclear Medicine Probe - Introduction of radioactive materials into the body for the study of distribution and fate of certain substances by the detection of radioactive emissions; or, alternatively, measurement of absorption of radioactive emissions from an external source
